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COTONEASTER

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Meaning:

Any shrub of the genus Cotoneaster: erect or creeping shrubs having richly colored autumn foliage and many small white to pinkish flowers followed by tiny red or black fruits

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("cotoneaster" is a kind of...):

bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cotoneaster"):

Cotoneaster dammeri (climbing evergreen shrub with white flowers and red berries; often used as ground cover)

Cotoneaster horizontalis (deciduous flat-growing shrub with a fanned herringbone pattern and having reddish flowers and orange-red berries; used as a ground cover)

Holonyms ("cotoneaster" is a member of...):

genus Cotoneaster (genus of deciduous or evergreen Old World shrubs widely cultivated)

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